fun day of knitting

Hi Everyone,

      What a great day we had yesterday. A group of around 20 of us got together and knit about 50 purple baby hats. Joyce from quilt club got us started with her 7 hats donated at Saturday Creative Sewing Club and then we added to it. What a wonderful day, everyone had so much fun and to see all those hats piling up, I was just thrilled.

       If you don't know about this wonderful organization visit the link below; in short knit purple baby hats from now until the end of Oct. Then send them to your local group and the hats are given out in November to all new babes, the purple hats are to make awareness for Shaken baby Syndrome. http://clickforbabies.org

      I just want to say Thank you to everyone who came out and knit yesterday, it was great meeting new friends and just have a fun day of knitting. If there are any local knitters feel free to drop off your hats at The Cloth Castle, 786 Goldstream Ave. I will make sure your hats get delivered!

Rogue Quilter concentrating on Knitting

 

 

Zita thought my sister could use a new hat....she made her a purple beret! You can just see her in the left corner, what a riot we all had a good laugh.

   As you can see there was fun, laughter and knitting. What can we make next?  Have a great week.

Fall is here and knitting fun!

Hi Everyone

     Can you believe that the middle of September has come and gone?  Time is moving to quickly. I had a great summer. Spent a fair amount of time sewing but also taking it easy too.
    We spent a  weekend up at Mt. Washington, what a great spot. We have friends that have a condo there and they generously lent it to us. We over looked the chair lifts and endless nature. What a great weekend.....hmmm when can I go back!

View from the condo.

my family....brother (Brad), sister (Miriam) and Mom (Margot)

      This summer has also been an great year for Blackberries so my sister, brother and I have picking as many as we can get. Our house is surrounded by them, we have been lucky. I have made a couple of apple crisps with blackberries, yum!

      We started quilt club last week. It was so great to see everyone, it is like the first day of school. My main feature was working with laminate fabrics. They are so much fun to sew with. We also had Rebecca, our new knitting teacher, came by and  she did a show and tell of her new classes. All of her projects are just beautiful and look great. Rebecca used patterns that are great for all skill levels, knitting is so social and it is just fun to get together with a group and learn to knit. While at the store Rebecca also introduced us to an organization called Click for Babies. This organization knits purple hats and then they give them out in the month of November to all new babies, to make awareness for Shaken baby Syndrome. I have included the link below the photo if you would like more info. This is a great way use up some yarn and knit for a great cause.

 

CLICK FOR BABIES 

Join us at The Cloth Castle Oct. 2 for a knit day. 

Miriam (my sister) has organized a day to get together, meet new friends and have fun. 

Knit or crochet your purple baby hats and be a part of a great cause!

Sunday, October 2     12-3pm 

Just let the store know if you are coming so we know space needs. 250-478-2112

   Well I better get back to my sewing, next club is coming up fast! Happy fall everyone.

Have you heard.....?

That there is a quilt show this weekend?

A friend of mine is having a quilt show outside in her gorgeous yard.  Mavis and her family run a Bed and Breakfast, they also have a beautiful yard too. Sounds like a great way to spend a couple hours on Saturday afternoon.

Here are the details from Mavis:

You are invited to browse quilts in an outdoor rural setting, some of which will be for sale.

 

Location:

Dayspring Quilt Studio (Mavis Reynolds)

at

Dayspring Farm B&B

370 Hector Road

Victoria, BC  V9E 2C3

(off Interurban across from Camosun College)

 

Date:

Sat. Sept 3rd

 

Time:

3-5 pm

 

Hope to see you there!  Please spread the word.

 

Have a great long weekend,

Show and Tell part 2

Hi Everyone

   Well lets see if we can do this today.

This quilt is by my coworker Pauline. Pauline started with leftover Stack'n Whack blocks and her stash of silks.

This quilt belongs to Vandy. Once day we were looking at her quilt and were thinking of what she could do to add some pizazz, Vandy has a beautiful selection of vintage pins from family members so she added those to the open areas. I love it, really beautiful.

This wallhanging is my sister's (aka the rogue quilter), she hand stitched the dragon in the center and then framed it with template crazy patch blocks.

This quilt was made from a great selection of Oriental prints and tones.

This little hen is amazing, everywhere you look there is something else to see. This was made by Doris as well as the stocking below.

This is my sister's Dr. Seuss crazy patch. My sister loves this fabric line and this was her first quilt made by herself!

This is my crazy patch... Wool crazy. I loved making this project and will probably do another. I would like to do another with more hand stitches.

I made this from a paper pieced block and the new Whimsical line called Winterberry.

This was a great wallhanging made from Silk ties, each block also had one shape that had a tie shape.

Memories of Paris, several techniques were used to create this piece.

Pauline made this from old photos from her Dad's trip to Indonesia.

Well I hope you enjoyed the show and tell and also inspires you to try crazy patch for yourself.

Natasha

Quilt Challenge Show and Tell

Hi Everyone

    Well it is another end to the Quilt Challenge at The Cloth Castle, there were so many great quilts and I thought I would share the quilts with you. The challenge this year was crazy patch.

This quilt won Best in Show

     Sorry everyone but it seems Blogger isn't in a good mood today. I will have to the rest of show and tell tomorrow. Sorry. Technology is great.... when it works!

Getting ready for quilt show this weekend

Hi Everyone

   How is it possible that it is already the middle of August? Where is the summer going? Have you noticed the evenings are starting to get that little nip of fall. 

  I have been working really hard on getting my samples for my fall classes done, they are coming along great. I did take one break and made a prototype of a Christmas ball I would like to make for Christmas gifts. It turned out pretty good, there was over 100,000 stitches so it took awhile to stitch out on the machine. Hmmm... do I really want to make these as gifts? Maybe I better get the smaller size!

Free standing lace Christmas Ball. Stitched with Sulky Metallic Thread on Husqvarna Designer Ruby.

   I hope to see all the locals this weekend at the Quilt Show at The Cloth Castle. See you soon and enjoy these last few weeks of summer!

a great long weekend...

Hi Everyone

     What a great weekend we had in Victoria, great sun, finally warm weather and fun with family and friends! It can't get better than that.

     Saturday my mom, brother and I went to Salt Spring Island, we encountered a few delays along the way but once we arrived it was great. On Saturdays they have a great market over there, the colours and smells are so inviting you can't help but get drawn in. Take a look....

Who can resist these little ladies all in a row!

    On Monday in Canada we have a Holiday so a few of my quilting buddies, new and old got together and had a quilting bee! We sewed from noon till 9pm! I had a lot of fun and really accomplished a lot. I have been working on my samples for my fall classes and they are coming along great. Have any of you used the Twister and Lil Twister ruler? It so much fun, I love this technique! The Lil Twister uses charm pack (5" squares) size squares to start with and the Twister uses Layer Cake size (10" squares), great fun you really need to try this.

This is the smaller of the two and makes a little table mat.

And this is a lap size quilt. For sample size it is great, but this technique is so easy you can  easily expand the finished size. How did my toes get in there..... sorry!

     Well you can see we were hard at work and had so much fun, the others girls got a lot done too.....well most of them anyway!

   Have a great week!